Nety: freitasm does it support S3 sleep? The old one only supported S4 even though the chipset did include S3 but HP had disabled it.

If you're game, there are a number of BIOS mods available for the Gen7 N40L (probably works on 36/54 also) that will enable S3, as well as set the SATA controller to 3Gbps on all ports, instead of 1.5Gbps.

The crossed out drives are external USB ones use to copy data from my old NAS. The two 3TB WD are now one mirror set (Data#2). Data#1 is a 1TB drive I will use for Crashplan backup from LAN (we still do the backups to Crashplan servers anyway, but this is for faster restore if needed).

The Data partition in the first drive will be removed as soon as everything is copied into the mirrored set.

Might toy with the option of installing my 256GB SSD in the DVD bay and use it for boot. Not critical at the moment though unless more storage space is needed - not for the moment being.

The unit won't support sleep as it's disabled in ROM. According to HP it's designed to be an always on machine.

This might be something interesting for later - at the moment the first drive is a 500GB, the second 2TB and then the 2x 3TB. Not really going to use it all up, I'm afraid - not like some people I know who MUST. HAVE. THE . ENTIRE. INTERNET. AT. HOME...

Mainly serving files, but installed a SSL cert, will configure a SSTP VPN server soon, as well as a download station. Running Crashplan on this box as well to receive local backups - while we all continue to backup to the Crashplan servers, a local backup is useful for quick restore if needed.

So I assume your personal machine will backup locally to this server then this server will back everything up to the online crash plan servers? Will you just use Microsoft RAS to create the VPN or third party software?